Michigan State University professor Philip Howard has documented the tangled web that are organic products today.
Have fun seeing who owns your favorite organic brand. The same sort of chart can be found here too.
Organics as Agribusiness
April 22, 2008 · 2 Comments
Categories: environment
Tagged: agribusiness, food, organic
2 responses so far ↓
eyegillian // April 27, 2008 at 6:46 am
Thank you for these eye-opening ownership maps. Of course, it’s so easy to think that buying organic is a vote against processed foods, and then to think it’s all going into the same pockets…!
Perhaps this is a sign we need to rethink global food distribution, because if name-recognition and branding is important to getting people to buy your product, then it needs a huge producer/processor/distributor behind it. Even local producers who build and maintain a strong local market won’t be able to compete with the huge distribution chains that feed the grocery stores. Sounds like a lose-lose proposition to me!
naturallyinteresting // April 28, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Well I enjoy buying local, I don’t really mind if some large company buys out a local organics producer - provided - that they maintain an environmentally sound business model.
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